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GLM-4.5-Air

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Verdict

GLM-4.5-Air is a solid mid-pack model: #151 of 406 by SIscope score. Even across the board, with no weak spot in what's been tested. Cheaper than 79% of priced models. Weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

SIscope score
57
#151 of 406
Human-vote rank
#174
of 419 · score 1384
Price per 1M tokens, blended
$0.31
$0.13 in · $0.85 out
Context window
131K
131,072 tokens

Shape

Each spoke is a category, 0 at the centre, 100 at the edge.

CodingAgentsno data yetReasoningMathChatInstructions

Category scores

Percentiles: 90 means better than about 90% of tested models.

Coding57
Agents & toolsNo data yet–
Reasoning & knowledge57
Math58
Chat quality59
Following instructions56

What goes into each category · Compare with Gemini 4 Carbon

Human-vote score over time

Text arena, recent updates.

137513831390Oct 20: 1383.8 (rank #172)Oct 22: 1383.7 (rank #173)Oct 28: 1383.7 (rank #174)Oct 20Oct 28

Independent test runs

Run by Epoch AI on the same harness for every model. Bars show the share of questions answered correctly.

No Epoch AI runs for this model yet.

Human-vote arenas

People compare two anonymous answers and pick the better one. Scores work like chess ratings.

ArenaRankScoreRange (95%)VotesUpdated
Text arena
Everyday chat, blind human votes
#174 of 41913841380–138830,652Oct 28, 2026
WebDev arena
Building web apps, blind human votes
Not on this board yet
Vision arena
Questions about images, blind human votes
Not on this board yet
Agent arena
Real multi-step agent sessions
Not on this board yet

Source: Arena (formerly LMArena) leaderboard dataset, CC BY 4.0. Fetched Nov 4, 2026.

Price

Input
$0.13
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.85
per 1M tokens
Blended
$0.31
3 in : 1 out, per 1M
Context window
131K
max tokens per request
Speed
Coming soon
our own tests

List price from the OpenRouter models API (z-ai/glm-4.5-air), Nov 4, 2026. Providers can charge differently.